To Kill a Mockingbird & Racial Prejudice

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To Kill a Mockingbird and Racial Prejudice
Pathfinder
PHS High School Library
May 2008

Scope: Guide to materials available in the PHS library, through subscription databases, and through previewed free websites.

Keywords: Use the topic you are researching as your keyword. When beginning your search, use broader terms to get more returns on your search. To narrow your search to a specific aspect, use that term with your topic. For example:

Civil Rights Movement AND Alabama
Montgomery AND Bus Boycott
Desegregation AND Alabama

Print Resources: Use the Library Catalog to locate print resources in the PHS Library


Subscription Databases: See library staff for user names and passwords.

  • American History Online: Spans more than 500 years of political, military, social, and cultural history, highlighting the important people and events of the American experience.

  • Literature Resource Center: Offers up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on nearly 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.

  • ProQuest: Full-text articles from magazines, newspapers, encyclopedias, and educational journals. Use keys to begin your search. Notice at the top your result list the Suggested Topics options. These are alternate topics related to the search terms you have entered. Suggested Topics appear in order by relevance (best suggestions and matches first) and often contain pairs of index terms to help focus results.

  • SIRS Knowledge Source: SIRS Knowledge Source (SKS) is a comprehensive database portal which is comprised of several distinct reference databases including SIRS Researcher®, SIRS Government Reporter®, SIRS Renaissance®, SKS WebSelect™, SIRS Discoverer®, and Discoverer WebFind™. Updated daily, SKS provides relevant, credible information on social issues, science, history, government, the arts and humanities. Full-text articles and Internet resources are carefully selected from thousands of domestic and international publications and respected organizations. Begin your research by performing a subject heading search. That will bring up a list of LC Subject Headings related to your search terms. If you are not returning many results through subject heading searches, try a keyword search. SIRS is not as intuitive as some of the other databases, so you need to be more flexible in your search terms and strategies. SIRS has an online Quick Start Guide with more detailed search strategies.

  • **Student Resource Center**: Broad database offering resources in literature, cultures, science, history, and geography. Full-text articles from reference works, primary sources, and periodicals.


  • World Book Online: Encyclopedia, reference, and multimedia sources. Good starting point for a general overview. Includes links to reviewed web sites.


Free Websites:

  • 20th Century History in the Yahoo! Directory: Links to a multitude of websites of varying degrees of reliability on a variety of topics related to the 20th century. If considering using links from the Yahoo! Directory, be sure to consult the Website Evaluation PowerPoint on the Research Tools page of this Wiki.


  • The History Guy: The History Guy website is a private, educational website covering world affairs, global conflict, history and politics. Research and development of content for public use is facilitated by Roger Lee, the website owner and manager, a veteran secondary social studies teacher in Washington State.